Subject: Diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system and muscles, including developmental disorders.

Content: Historical aspects of Neurology. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. Clinical and diagnostic approach of the neurological patient. History and clinical examination in Neurology (cranial nerves, motor, sensory, extrapyramidal, cortical functions). Localizing the lesion. Laboratory tests (spinal tap, examination of the CSF, electroencephalography, nerve conduction velocity, electromyography, evoked potentials, traditional radiology, vascular ultrasonography, CT and MRI). Epilepsy, epileptic syndromes, status epilepticus. CerebroVascular events, ischemic, hemorrhagic. Disorders of the peripheral nervous system. Polyneuropathies (hereditary, acquired, nutritional, inflammatory). Disorders of the muscles and neuromuscular junction, myasthenia. Movement disorders, Parkinson's disease, Chorea, Dystonia, essential tremor, secondary movement disorders, gait disorders. Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, multiple sclerosis. Pain, neuropathic pain and painful syndromes. Headaches. Intracranial Hypertension. Hydrocephalus. Tumors of the nervous system, and paraneoplastic syndromes. Alterations of the level of consciousness and mental status, confusional agitated state, coma. Infections, meningitis, encephalitis. Motor neuron disease. Ataxias. Nervous system disorders in systemic illness (diabetes, alcoholism, renal, liver disease). Dizziness, vertigo, balance disorders. Disorders of higher cortical functions, aphasia, apraxia, dementia, Alzheimer's disease.

Teaching methods and outcomes: Lectures in the amphitheater and clinical practice in small groups. During clinical practice students are fully incorporated in the department's activities (ward, outpatient clinics, laboratories and emergency room). They acquire practical, hands on, and theoretical knowledge working with their professors by the bedside, and they learn how to perform the relevant procedures. Their final level of knowledge in neurology allows them to diagnose, differential diagnose, and provide a basic level of treatment of nervous system disorders.

Hours of training per student: 130

Semester: 9th + 10th (rotation)

ECTS: 6